Game Maker for Mac… is go!

Although the finished product unfortunately doesn't support PPC Macs or any version of OS X under 10.5 I am still glad to finally see GM4Mac make its grand debut.

Here is the official announcement.

Quote:We are proud to announce the official launch of Game Maker for Mac!

This is our first release on the Mac, it is the Pro version of Game Maker 7 adapted for the Macintosh environment and contains almost all the feature of Game Maker 7 and more.

Supports Intel only Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) and v10.6 (Snow Leopard).Remote update mechanism (with regular updates for bug fixes and new features).Full Drag and Drop included.Full GML scripting.Extension mechanism to incorporate 3rd party libraries – (need to be Mac specific extensions, will not run Windows.).Room EditorSprite EditorPath EditorCreate standalone games that you can share with friends.
It has taken a long time to reach this stage, and many thanks to everyone involved in helping us with alpha and beta testing.

You can download Game Maker for Mac from here – http://appstore.yoyogames.com/downloads/..._Maker.dmg – this will give you 10 hours of accumulated use (i.e. you can use it for an hour, then a week later still have 9 hours use left), before you need to purchase a license.

An introductory price of $20 until the end of August, then $25 from 1st September. You can buy a license for Game Maker for Mac now from the YoYo Games Appstore… http://appstore.yoyogames.com/gm4mac !

That's cool. I know GameMaker has allowed a lot of talented people make some really great indie games on Windows without needing to be programming experts. Hopefully we can see some of those games on Mac now.

Looked into this just a few weeks ago, when my son took a one week "make a game" summer class. It had been in beta for over a year, which wasn't promising. And in the meantime the PC side has moved on Game Maker 8, which uses an incompatible file format. Glad they got it out though.

Yeah, the Mac version has been under development for a while. From what I have read, depending on the interest level of the Mac version GM8 features may find their way into it. The major plan however is for YoYo Games to now bring out Game Maker 9 simultaneously on both platforms.